01-09-2019, 04:28 PM
Yes, EVA is glyph-based.
The number of strokes for some of the glyphs is debatable. ch might be two strokes or three. It could be long-cee-shape + r-shape or two short-cee-shapes with a bar.
The same goes for the 4 char and the gallows chars. The horizontal stem (the upper stem) might be a separate bar.
If gallows chars were Latin characters, the bar would probably not be counted as a separate bar, it's more like a serif to join one shape to the next or a ligature, but the gallows are probably invented characters (despite their similarity to certain Latin chars) and thus the analogy might not hold for VMS chars, the bar might be its own entity.
Has anyone even done a stroke-based transcript?
The number of strokes for some of the glyphs is debatable. ch might be two strokes or three. It could be long-cee-shape + r-shape or two short-cee-shapes with a bar.
The same goes for the 4 char and the gallows chars. The horizontal stem (the upper stem) might be a separate bar.
If gallows chars were Latin characters, the bar would probably not be counted as a separate bar, it's more like a serif to join one shape to the next or a ligature, but the gallows are probably invented characters (despite their similarity to certain Latin chars) and thus the analogy might not hold for VMS chars, the bar might be its own entity.
Has anyone even done a stroke-based transcript?
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